I am getting a flood of the following log in my syslog. There is no adverse effects other than wasted CPU adding the log and annoyingly large syslog files. I would like to understand and stop this problem.

The annoying log
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root@server:/var/log# tail syslog
Apr 14 11:24:07 server kernel: eth0: (96423253) System Error occured (0)
Apr 14 11:24:10 server kernel: eth0: (96423256) System Error occured (0)
Apr 14 11:24:10 server kernel: eth0: (96423257) System Error occured (0)
Apr 14 11:24:10 server kernel: eth0: (96423260) System Error occured (0)
Apr 14 11:24:10 server kernel: eth0: (96423262) System Error occured (0)
Apr 14 11:24:10 server kernel: eth0: (96423263) System Error occured (0)
Apr 14 11:24:10 server kernel: eth0: (96423264) System Error occured (0)
Apr 14 11:24:10 server kernel: eth0: (96423265) System Error occured (0)
Apr 14 11:24:11 server kernel: eth0: (96423266) System Error occured (0)
Apr 14 11:24:11 server kernel: eth0: (96423267) System Error occured (0)
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Here is my system:

Dell Dimension P60 (yup a cluncker!)
using
SlackeWare 2.4.20
Network card is a generic card (I forget what flavour in particular).

Thanks,
Phil
linuxquestions@rushworthfamily.com

This: "eth0" tells us that your network is to blame. Does your network card work 100%?

Rokka,

I have not done exhaustive testing on the network card, but I am willing to do some. What are some good tests I can run?

Here is what works from experience:

I can SSH into the computer and surf the http server that I run on it. My http access logs do so a small percentage of failed requests (4%). I do not know if these are related to this issue. Telnet works on the LAN and I do not run an FTP server. As far as I know all of these use the same basic properties of the network card. Are there other things I can check?

Thanks,
Phil